Partizanų keliais Aukštaitijoje

In Utena, not far from the intersection of the Kaunas–Daugavpils (A6) and Vilnius–Utena (A14) highways.

The museum was established in 2015 in the former Utena narrow-gauge railway station. As it is presented, it is a museum that breathes poetry and subtly reveals the truth of the post-war period. The exhibition “Common European Identity in the Context of Totalitarian Regimes” offers to learn about the past of all of Lithuania and Europe through the history of one Lithuanian region. It tells about the division of Europe in 1939 according to secret protocol agreements, the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the forced participation of Lithuanians in World War II, exile, post-war resistance and the creation of collective farms in the Utena region. The painful events of 1940–1965 in the Utena region and Lithuania are revealed by comparing them with life behind the Iron Curtain.

The history of the narrow gauge railway station also bears a tragic imprint. From here, in 1941 and 1945–1953, wagons with deportees rolled to Siberia.

In Šimoniai Forest, driving along road 1216 (there is a directional sign and a stand).

Šimonias Forest was the center of operations of the largest partisan unit of Aukštaitija, Algimantas District, during the post-war Lithuanian partisan struggles. In 1945, about 200 partisans were active in this district, and in 1952, only 20-30 partisans. From 1947–1949, the hideouts of the commanders of the Eastern Lithuanian (King Mindaugas) partisan region, Captain Jonas Kimštos-Žalgiris, and Antanas Starkus-Montė, who took over the latter's duties in 1949, were established in Šimonias Forest - command posts from which the partisan movement in Aukštaitija was led. The Algimantas District Partisan Struggle Route invites you to get acquainted with 6 partisan hideouts of Algimantas District, which were set up and where partisans of the Žaliojis, Šarūnas and Kunigaikštis Margis squads hid and fought. Two walking routes of different lengths (5 km and 10 km) have been established in Šimoniai Forest, inviting you to travel along the partisan paths.

After passing the Anrioniškis town cemetery (there are signs).

This hideout housed the Eastern Lithuanian (King Mindaugas) regional headquarters of the Lithuanian partisans from 1944 to 1949. In the summer of 1944, Balys Žukauskas founded the hideout with his brothers Petras and Juozas Jovaišas and began hiding from the mobilization into the Red Army announced in 1944. At the end of 1945, Antanas Slučka-Šarūnas began visiting the hideout, who was the first to establish a partisan detachment in the Troškūnai area, and later united the partisans of Rokiškis, Anykščiai, Kavarskas, Troškūnai and Andrioniškis into the Šarūnas detachment. In 1947, A. Slučka-Šarūnas became the commander of the Algimantas regional district, and in 1949, the commander of the Eastern Lithuanian region. This means that from 1949, the hideout became the headquarters of the Eastern Lithuanian region. The hideout, which had successfully sheltered partisans for five years, was betrayed on October 28, 1949. After MGB military units surrounded the homestead, the partisans hiding there blew themselves up, refusing to surrender.

Currently, a bunker has survived, a cross has been erected, and a monument to the dead has been erected.

In the center of the town of Troškūnai, Anykščiai district, next to the Holy Trinity Church.

During the partisan war of 1944–1953, the territory of Lithuania was divided into 9 partisan districts. In 1947–1950, the Lithuanian partisan Algimantas district operated in the Panevėžys and Anykščiai areas, the establishment of which is closely linked to Troškūnas. The residents of this town organized partisan units in Aukštaitija. The first commander of the Algimantas district, Antanas Slučka-Šarūnas, was born and lived in Troškūnas.

In 1996, at the initiative of the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center, a monument was erected in Troškūnai dedicated to the partisans of Algimantas County. The author of the monument was sculptor Jonas Jagėla and architect Audronė Kiausinienė. The main part of the monument is a black stone gate, which symbolizes those who left to defend the Homeland and did not return. The bronze crosses installed on the sides of the gate symbolize the Christian faith, and the bronze sword, like the sword of the archangel St. Michael, symbolizes the light of faith and hope. In the square in front of the monument, black stone slabs commemorate three Algimantas County teams - Šarūnas, Žaliojis and Duke Margis.